Fourth Circuit Rules for Hospital in Appeal over Physician's Privileges
My thanks to Mack Sperling, who writes the North Carolina Business Litigation Report, for directing me earlier this month to a Fourth Circuit decision, which involves a dispute over a physician’s practice privileges and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986. Wahi v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc., 2009 WL 962310 (4th Cir. 2009).
Fellow Charleston blogger Bob Coffield, author of the Health Care Law Blog, wrote this thorough analysis of the decision, As Bob explains, this decision makes several points that should be of particular interest to lawyers who represent hospitals and others involved in the peer-review process.
Bob's firm represented the hospital in the appeal, and Kenneth W. Starr, former solicitor general and current dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, argued on behalf of Dr. Wahi.
